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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a reggae album and single by Black Uhuru.The album was first released under the title Showcase in 1979, then as a re-edition entitled Black Uhuru in 1980, with the addition of "Shine Eye Gal" (featuring a guest performance by Keith Richards on guitar), and with different mixes of the original LP tracks (some shorter, some longer.)
Although albums were not terribly important in Jamaica at the time, Levy released four albums before 1980: Shaolin Temple, Bounty Hunter, Shine Eye Gal (United Kingdom) and Englishman, a critically acclaimed record. His success led to many earlier studio and sound system performances being reissued without his consent, releases he described as ...
Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru (Swahili for 'freedom'). The group has undergone several line-up changes over the years, with Derrick "Duckie" Simpson as the mainstay.
The third edition (revised), published in 2008, has 1,264 pages, somewhat smaller than the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and is distinct from the "Compact" (single- and two-volume photo-reduced) editions of the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.
Shabba Ranks was born in Sturge Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica, and raised in Seaview Gardens, Kingston. [4] [5]His father, Ivan Gordon, was a mason who died in 1990. [6] His mother, Constance "Mama Christie" Christie, remained in Seaview after Shabba's success, feeding the community with money sent from her son after his emigration.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
1. Englishman, Briton, or person of British descent; an English or British immigrant [289] 2. English or British ship [290] line 1. Untruth or exaggeration, often told to seek or maintain approval from others e.g. "to feed one a line" [291] 2. Insincere flattery [287] lip 1. Underworld attorney i.e. criminal attorney e.g.
The Glad Eye may refer to: a British slang expression. According to the Cambridge University Press, to give someone the glad eye means “to look at SB (somebody) in a way that shows you find them sexually attractive.” The Glad Eye, a British comedy directed by Kenelm Foss; The Glad Eye, a British comedy directed by Maurice Elvey